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siannan...and its about me! Without referring to me directly or sanctimoniously requesting prayers or anything, awww, should I feel slighted? Bad enough that she blocked my tweets and then sent her beard*cough*husband in to "deal" with me. Baww, so scared of the testosterone! The big bad man won't let wifey turn the other cheek, I guess, but it's fine to let her get passive-aggressive and prevaricate about why she called me a kiddyfucker.
So basically these two think they are running a "ministry" of blogs and blog promotion. Yeah, great, except that theirs are the only two blogs on their network, and the posts all seem to be about either decrying Oprah as the antichrist (lol forever) or picking out prominent LGBTQ personages and begging people to pray for them. Even better is when their targets are raising families (Ricky Martin, NPH and his husband, etc), they make a point of saying "and their small children", as if the kids are in some kind of mortal peril. The only thing the Burtka-Harris twins seem to be in danger of is an overdose of awesome at a tender age. So what, these people want their parents to turn straight and divorce? Yeah, that's really not gonna fuck up a kid for life. *eyeroll*
Roger Ebert wrote an essay and references to it that I've linked to here before (look, Ma, I'm linking it again! This one too!), about the differences between what he calls horizontal and vertical prayer.
"This is really an argument between two kinds of prayer--vertical and horizontal. I don't have the slightest problem with vertical prayer. It is horizontal prayer that frightens me. Vertical prayer is private, directed upward toward heaven. It need not be spoken aloud, because God is a spirit and has no ears. Horizontal prayer must always be audible, because its purpose is not to be heard by God, but to be heard by fellow men standing within earshot.
To choose an example from football, when my team needs a field goal to win and I think, ''Please, dear God, let them make it!''--that is vertical prayer. When, before the game, a group of fans joins hands and ''voluntarily'' recites the Lord's Prayer--that is horizontal prayer. It serves one of two purposes: to encourage me to join them, or to make me feel excluded."
Matthew 6:5, folks: "And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward."
These people, Stacy and Randall Harp, are engaging in the worst kind of horizontal prayer, if they even are praying at all. They aren't asking for divine intercession for people in genuine, desperate need -- the diseased, the poor, the homeless, the despondent. They're calling out and trying to shame successful individuals, many of whom are in long term, committed (in some cases, LEGALLY committed) relationships, raising healthy families, and doing good philanthropic work as well as maintaining their prominent careers in entertainment or journalism or what have you.
What has Stacy Harp done? She's left a long electronic paper trail of anal obsession, wild animal abuse, and general batshittery (I mean really, Donald and Daisy aren't even MARRIED) that stretches back close to a decade with just a simple Google search. She's like Shirley Phelps but with less media savvy and more whiny fail. She wasn't "accused" of anything she is not documented over and over again of being responsible for. "Penises in assholes" ad nauseam.
Am I trying to change these people's minds? Naw. They're content to wallow in the misery they invite upon themselves, creating a worldview that means everyone famous and queer is doomed with only their chants to the Invisible Sky Fairy preventing them from teetering into the Tar Pit of Doom. Hey, if believing that twaddle gives their life purpose, have at it, kiddos!
But that doesn't mean I, and many others, are going to 1. ever take them seriously 2. point and laugh and invite others to do so.
Lulz are my prayer, and in that respect, I and my friends are the holiest of holies.
So basically these two think they are running a "ministry" of blogs and blog promotion. Yeah, great, except that theirs are the only two blogs on their network, and the posts all seem to be about either decrying Oprah as the antichrist (lol forever) or picking out prominent LGBTQ personages and begging people to pray for them. Even better is when their targets are raising families (Ricky Martin, NPH and his husband, etc), they make a point of saying "and their small children", as if the kids are in some kind of mortal peril. The only thing the Burtka-Harris twins seem to be in danger of is an overdose of awesome at a tender age. So what, these people want their parents to turn straight and divorce? Yeah, that's really not gonna fuck up a kid for life. *eyeroll*
Roger Ebert wrote an essay and references to it that I've linked to here before (look, Ma, I'm linking it again! This one too!), about the differences between what he calls horizontal and vertical prayer.
"This is really an argument between two kinds of prayer--vertical and horizontal. I don't have the slightest problem with vertical prayer. It is horizontal prayer that frightens me. Vertical prayer is private, directed upward toward heaven. It need not be spoken aloud, because God is a spirit and has no ears. Horizontal prayer must always be audible, because its purpose is not to be heard by God, but to be heard by fellow men standing within earshot.
To choose an example from football, when my team needs a field goal to win and I think, ''Please, dear God, let them make it!''--that is vertical prayer. When, before the game, a group of fans joins hands and ''voluntarily'' recites the Lord's Prayer--that is horizontal prayer. It serves one of two purposes: to encourage me to join them, or to make me feel excluded."
Matthew 6:5, folks: "And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward."
These people, Stacy and Randall Harp, are engaging in the worst kind of horizontal prayer, if they even are praying at all. They aren't asking for divine intercession for people in genuine, desperate need -- the diseased, the poor, the homeless, the despondent. They're calling out and trying to shame successful individuals, many of whom are in long term, committed (in some cases, LEGALLY committed) relationships, raising healthy families, and doing good philanthropic work as well as maintaining their prominent careers in entertainment or journalism or what have you.
What has Stacy Harp done? She's left a long electronic paper trail of anal obsession, wild animal abuse, and general batshittery (I mean really, Donald and Daisy aren't even MARRIED) that stretches back close to a decade with just a simple Google search. She's like Shirley Phelps but with less media savvy and more whiny fail. She wasn't "accused" of anything she is not documented over and over again of being responsible for. "Penises in assholes" ad nauseam.
Am I trying to change these people's minds? Naw. They're content to wallow in the misery they invite upon themselves, creating a worldview that means everyone famous and queer is doomed with only their chants to the Invisible Sky Fairy preventing them from teetering into the Tar Pit of Doom. Hey, if believing that twaddle gives their life purpose, have at it, kiddos!
But that doesn't mean I, and many others, are going to 1. ever take them seriously 2. point and laugh and invite others to do so.
Lulz are my prayer, and in that respect, I and my friends are the holiest of holies.
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Date: 2012-06-11 04:19 am (UTC)Is this person fucking kidding me? What is the statistical likelihood that EVERY gay person this guy ever met died of AIDS? I don't give a fuck where a person is coming from on this issue -- if you think being gay has a 100% mortality rate due to HIV, you're too stupid to be allowed to walk the streets without supervision.
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Date: 2012-06-11 07:08 am (UTC)She's trying to use this disingenuous saccharine schtick on me in tweets. "Oh you poor dear, you mustn't blame yourself for being abused, I shall pray for you even though you persecute me" Get off the cross, you syrupy lunatic, we need the wood.
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Date: 2012-06-11 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-11 05:45 pm (UTC)I *do* know a queer former flight attendant, though. Now he flies a desk at corporate HQ.
Oh wait, I take it back, I have a transgender friend who worked in a salon, but that was before she transitioned. She's not HIV+ though so there goes THAT blanket statement.
I bet they all faked their deaths to get away from her proselytizing and neediness.
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Date: 2012-06-12 10:14 pm (UTC)